Man Beaten While Wearing Minion Costume in Daytona Beach

Police arrested the man caught on camera attacking the victim, who suffers from mental disabilities, while the victim was working on Sunday (Courtesy Daytona Beach Police Department via WESH)

(Published Thursday, July 12, 2018)

A self-proclaimed social media prankster has been charged with attacking a person with disabilities who was dressed as a Minion cartoon character on a popular Florida boardwalk Sunday.

Police said Jamie Roehm, partially blind and mentally disabled, was dressed as one of the yellow, cylindrical Minions while working outside Jungle George's, a shop on Daytona Beach's boardwalk, that evening when Ryan Nihart allegedly approached him.

Roehm can be seen being spun around, kicked and slammed to the pavement in the Minions suit in video cited by police and obtained by NBC affiliate WESH.

Police said witnesses encouraged Nihart — a 25-year-old who appears to call himself Bouje Ratche on social media — during the alleged attack. Roehm told officers that he told Nihart he wanted to stop.

In a YouTube video posted days after the incident, Nihart apologized and called the event a "big misunderstanding" and said he was trying to make a "funny" video.

Roehm — who has worked at the store for the last year — declined medical treatment, saying he was mostly bruised, the News Journal reported. The store owner told police the $300 minion suit was destroyed.